Infinitesimal deformations of complex surfaces with boundary.
For a complex polynomial in two variables we study the morphism induced in homology by the embedding of an irregular fiber in a regular neighborhood of it. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for this morphism to be injective, surjective. Particularly this morphism is an isomorphism if and only if the corresponding irregular value is regular at infinity. We apply these results to the study of vanishing and invariant cycles.
We investigate different concepts of modular deformations of germs of isolated singularities (infinitesimal, Artinian, formal). An obstruction calculus based on the graded Lie algebra structure of the tangent cohomology for modular dcformations is introduced. As the main result the characterisation of the maximal infinitesimally modular subgerm of the miniversal family as flattening stratum of the relative Tjurina module is extended from ICIS to space curve singularities.
In this note we study deformations of a plane curve singularity (C,P) toδ(C,P) nodes. We see that for some types of singularities the method of A'Campo can be carried on using parametric equations. For such singularities we prove that deformations to δ nodes can be made within the space of curves of the same degree.